Ok, I’ll come clean! Sometimes while I’m teaching a drum lesson I really have to fight the urge to just bust out with a nice fast and heavy Samba beat on the drum set! It’s a struggle sometimes but my students make it worthwhile to stay composed.

My local sports talk radio station plays some of the funkiest music ever! And then they have this one intro where they play this awesome drum solo, double bass and all. There’s always great drumming somewhere!

I would like to thank all of these school teachers I had growing up that had to listen to me tapping endlessly on my desk while in class. Lots of ideas that I still use today came out of those times I accompanied math and spelling classes with syncopated beats and finger rolls!